Do you find searching for and adding photos to WordPress a pain? Are you frustrated by the lack of image editing tools within WordPress? Then FotoPress might be the answer to your prayers! It bills itself as “the Photoshop for WordPress.” It’s also a mini-Google for finding the perfect image. In this post, I’ll take you through […]
How To Use Any Font With WordPress With Ease
A (brief) history of web typography Web designers used to be quite limited in font choice. It was recommended to use only web safe fonts – the small subset of fonts installed on both Windows and Mac computers. As Coffee Cup Software explained in their What is a web-safe font? post, that boiled down to only […]
How To Add Functions To Your WordPress Site Safely
What is a theme’s functions.php file? The functions.php file is a key part of any WordPress theme. It’s where the code runs that can do things like: set up the theme add widget areas register theme fonts add support for the WordPress Customizer add menu support It’s an essential file, and susceptible to breakage. Sometimes we […]
What’s the best free plugin to make a WordPress photo collage?
Following a question from someone in the Content Marketing Academy Membership Community about making a WordPress photo collage, I decided to investigate what plugins were on offer to do the job. I tested out 5 plugins, all free from WordPress.org. They were: Easy Image Collage Jetpack (Tiled Galleries Module) Collage Gallery H5P Wow Mood Board […]
What is the best WordPress permalink structure for SEO?
Updated 14 May 2018. When I install WordPress on a site, one of the first things I do is set the permalink structure. What are permalinks? A WordPress permalink is the URL generated for new posts or pages on your site. The name comes from a merging of the words “permanent link”. Permalinks always start […]
How To Add A New Twenty Sixteen Footer Menu
Twenty Sixteen is a popular WordPress theme, but it doesn’t have all the features that people want. One of the issues is with the Social Links menu in the footer: it’s only suitable to add links to social media profiles. Any other links added to this menu will show up as a strange symbol because […]
Want a simple & powerful way to show a grid display of posts?
A grid display of posts – that sounds cool… I’ve reviewed WordPress blog layout plugins before and found them a little clunky. They let you show a grid display of posts in WordPress. Themes sometimes have this built-in, but often they don’t. I’ve now discovered a new plugin to do the job and think it’s […]
The Importance of WordPress alt text for Accessibility and SEO
Updated 24 January 2017. What is alt text and what is it for? Alt text is short for alternative text. It’s a short textual description of the content of an image. People who are visually impaired can’t view any images on a page, so the alt text describes the images to them. The page content including […]
How To Create a Gravity Forms Quiz With Multiple Outcomes
For a project I’m working on I needed a WordPress quiz solution. There were some specific requirements: The quiz should have Yes/No answers. The quiz should be split into several pages, with one question per page. The quiz should keep overall score, but not offer instant feedback to users i.e. users should not be told […]
A Smarter Custom 404 Page With Redirects – Forty Four Pro
I start with a bit of background on 404 pages. To skip to the plugin review, click here. There’s a giveaway at the end, so keep reading! What exactly is a 404 page? All websites have an error page that is shown when a page is requested on a site that doesn’t exist. This is […]